Why You Don't Exercise Even Though You Know You Should. And Strategies To Get Over the Hump. | Katy Bowman

This is the 10% happier podcast. I'm Dan Harris. Hey. Hey, everybody. How we doing? One of the biggest problems that many of us face when it comes to our own health and wellness and longevity is that we know exercise is good for us, and yet we often just don't do it. Maybe we do it in short spurts. Maybe we never do it. In any event, it's a huge problem, especially at this time of year when many of us are making resolutions to exercise more, resolutions that statistically speaking are likely to be broken and abandoned by February. Side note, all of this is also true for plenty of other activities, including meditation. But today, we're really just focusing on exercise. The foundational thing to know is that this really is not about laziness or lack of understanding or lack of character or stick to itiveness. It's really that life is complicated and habit formation is really hard. So today, we're gonna talk to somebody who wrote a whole book with, taxonomy of the many, many reasons we don't exercise and a bunch of really smart and sometimes rather deep strategies for getting over the reasons we don't get our bodies moving. Katie Bowman is a biomechanist who runs a movement education company called Nutritious Movement. She's the author of 11 books, and her most recent is called I Know I Should Exercise, But. The subtitle is 44 reasons we don't move and how to get over them. In this conversation, we talk about what a biomechanist does, what Katie means by movement as nutrition, how to determine your own movement diet, the distinction between movement and exercise. We go through many of the reasons why people don't exercise. We talk about strategies for consistency, the role of values and attention, how to move if you don't like to sweat, how to find time to move when you feel like you've got very little time, the technique of stacking your life, overcoming embarrassment and shame related to movement, and strengthening your so what muscle, getting comfortable with discomfort, what to do when you're addicted to your screens, and much more. Speaking of the new year, our new app is going strong. It's called 10% with Dan Harris, and you can sign up over at danharris.com. There's a fourteen day free trial if you wanna try it before you buy. We got lots of stuff going on over there. In fact, there's a new meditation that dropped today with our teacher of the month, Bart Van Melick, who tailored today's meditation to go along with today's podcast episode. The meditation is called rewire your relationship with your body. Also, over in the app, we do weekly live meditation and q and a sessions. I'll be hosting the next one solo. We do these every Tuesday at four. Okay. Enough plugging. We'll get started with Katie Bowman right after this. New year, new systems. Right? This is the time …